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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Tal Ben Shahar – Co-founder and Chief Content Officer of the Happiness Studies Academy. of Content for Marshall Goldsmith and 100 Coaches Project.

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The Obligatory Pre-Davos Post!

Harvard Business Review

You might think, given all this production of Davos-related content, that there was a lot of demand for it among readers and viewers. There will be lots more once the conference starts. And of course several of the cable news networks will be conducting endless streams of interviews from Davos. I doubt that. are on hand at Davos.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

Leading MBA programs have doubled the number of courses they offer that have social enterprise content. Huge companies like IBM have created programs to train and transition retirees into social sector roles. Elite undergraduate business schools like Babson College have changed their mission statement s to explicitly include social value.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Decades of hit-or-miss advice from government, companies, and NGO's has reinforced farmers' already skeptical view of new solutions. If your solution is not conducive to a physical demo, you can use printed flipcharts to display photos or low-cost tablets for video and interactive content.

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Why So Many of Us Experience a Midlife Crisis

Harvard Business Review

If the burned out Wall Street lawyer and the dissatisfied NGO activist were to change seats, perhaps neither would end up more content. Periods of “mid-career crisis” seem to be part of a natural developmental process, driven by biology rather than the specifics of a particular job.

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

Systempreneurs appreciate that the process of convening is as important as the content discussed and go to great lengths to empower people who hold potential solutions. Supporting activists to develop new campaign strategies that can build the capacity of NGO’s, as Campaign Lab does in the U.K.

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